…Which is, perhaps, why President Obama assessed a less than fifty percent chance of success, or why US Secretary of State John Kerry was somewhat blasé about the “marathon” talks this week, telling reporters in Vienna that they could “go either way” – either preventing an Iranian bomb, or leaving the parties empty-handed. And it also may be why CNN this week suggested calling in the big guns to break the stalemate – the residents of Abyaneh, a “conflict-resolution village” in central Iran, who are often called upon to resolve local disputes. Is this another reflection of the flimsiness of the talks and their sustainable value, or the media’s flippancy on the talks, or does it mean that at this point, the press has more faith in the octogenarian villagers of the Karkass Mountains than in the leaders of the P5+1 and Iran?